Wiki-what?

When you turned on TV or turned a few pages of newspapers or clicked on online news few months ago, you couldn't miss stories about Wikileaks. Every day there was something new. Than there was substantial news coverage about Julian Assange and the Swedish lawsuits against him. And then? Nothing? Where did he go? What happened to Wikileaks?

Actually the nonprofit organization, called Wikileaks is still quite active on its website. The last news were posted on April 24th, relating to Guantanamo. Before that post, they didn't publish anything since February, but I wouldn't say that it indicates their devolution.

What is interesting is the fact that traditional news don't report about Wikileaks as much as they did when the organization first published some confidential files. I think that this case really shows us how traditional media still set agenda, despite the development and advantages of the new media. If television stations and newspapres wouldn't report about Wikileaks, most people wouldn't hear about it.

Although new media offer an opportunity for the suppresed voices to speak and publish information, which traditional media wouldn't dare to publish, they still need the "old" media to help them be heard.

See what Julian Assange has told about why the world needs Wikileaks here, or place yourself in Julian's shoes and try to steal secret files to Obama here.